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Thursday, 23 October 2014

.... Jo Tritton with her beautiful take on our inspirational artwork this month.

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Hi everyone, my name's Jo and I'm so excited to be Guest Designing for ARTastic this month.I live in a very pretty rural town in New South Wales, Australia. I'm married to my teenage sweetheart and we have two wonderful offspring & two very spoilt fur babies. I work part-time outside the home and I spend most of my spare time papercrafting, which I began back in 2005. I've been published on numerous occasions in Scrapbooking magazines and I'm currently keeping busy with the various Design Teams that I'm on. I love card making and I've recently started documenting our travel memories using pocket page scrapbooking (Project Life).I hope you can play along this month, I'd love to see your wonderful creations.

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I was inspired by the colour of the Jacaranda blooms, so I have used mainly blue and mauve on my layout. I think these colours blend nicely with the vintage sepia tones as well. Mauve was also my mother’s favourite colour and the photo I’ve used is of my mother as a baby with her older brother. The photo is obviously a studio shot but it looks quite rustic because of the tree/branch chair my mother is sitting on. I could easily imagine my mum and uncle sitting under a Jacaranda tree at a family gathering.

I think it was the colours that inspired me most this month from the inspiration picture, and I used flowers with same colours as the "tea time table" with yellow and red at the bottom of the page. I had some old Prima and G45 papers that worked well with the colours.

As it is all about using a vintage photo this month, I had to look through one of my mom's old photo albums and I found one of her from 1967 wearing a coat with matching colours to the papers. Now it is your turn to flip through some old albums, finding a picture you can use for this inspiring challenge :)STINA

I used a photo from my parents wedding day. It was really fun to dig in
to the old photos. It was walking down memory lane.

LESLEYWhen I saw the criteria of using photos over thirty years old I knew I had to
use my baby photos. I turned forty this year and at my party I had a photo board
up of my life so far. I grabbed the ones from my first year and added on of my
favourite latest ones. My favourite colour to scrap with is teal and I love
flowers so these had to included. My intention is to scrap all my other ones too
and document some memories on the way, this page will be the cover.DI

The eye-catching colour of the jacaranda and then the gentle atmosphere
depicted in the painting, are what I have based my layout on this month.

I've chosen a reproduction of an original photo of my mum, taken in 1929,
when she was 18. This copy is about 40 years old, and given to family members at
a reunion in 1974.

The layout has ended up being a mix of heritage / shabby chic /
distressed style, with the use of paper punching, touches of lace and hand- made
flowers. Most of these are roses, which were one of mum's favourite flowers. The
colours of cream, blue and touches of the purple were also favourites. JANE

I was inspired by the gorgeous jacaranda colours in the artwork and have used a lovely photograph of my parents when they were in their 20's. I just love the fashions of this era and how much pride they took in their appearance when going out. I think this was a day at the local races.

Now it is your turn ....

Remember we happily accept all forms of paper crafting for your entry including digital and encourage international submissions. All we ask is that you create a new entry for our challenge although you are most welcome to combine with a sketch and/or colour challenge if you wish. You have until 11.55pm on the last day of the month to submit your entry.

Next week we will be introducing you to our lovely October guest designer, Jo Tritton.

Thursday, 9 October 2014

Welcome to another round of Tips, Tricks and Techniques, this time brought to you by team member Wendy O'Keeffe.

HYBRID VINTAGE CARD by Wendy

Next week you will
see the vintage layout I did using the beautiful painting by Godfrey Rivers
“Under the Jacaranda Tree” as inspiration. In the meantime, I thought I would
show you how I used the same artwork as inspiration to make a card. The card is
a hybrid, using both digital and traditional elements. This is the finished
version:

It is an easel style
card, traditionally made but with a digital front panel. The main colour is
blue to reflect the lovely colour of the Jacaranda blooms in the inspirational
painting. The following step by step instructions show how I made the card.

1.The front panel

I produced the front panel of my card by using digital artwork and printing it
on photographic paper.

Hint 1-Don’t be put off if you don’t do digital. You can use one of your own
photos, or a favourite image from the internet (just make sure you don’t break
any Copy Right laws).

Hint 2 - If you don’t
have a photo printer, you can save your image and have it printed as a photo for
as little as 10 cents at places like Office Works. (I do this for my Christmas
cards and they end up being very inexpensive but still personalised.

The vintage image on
my panel is from G&T Designs which I purchased from e-scape and scrap
online. The other embellishments come from a variety of digital art packages.

2.What you will need to make the card

As well as the above list, you will need your favourite glue
and some foam dots or squares.

3. Assembling the card

Ink around the edges of your front panel and the two pieces of patterned
paper/cardstock. Stick the front panel to the large piece of patterned paper so
that it looks like this.

Then stick that to the centre of one of the pieces of your
scored cardstock so that it looks like the photo below. This could be a
stand-alone card as it is but I’m going to show you how to turn it into an
easel card.

To form the easel shape, you need to stick your card to the
other piece of cardstock.

Now you can stick
your embellishments to the front of your card so that it becomes 3D. I used
flowers and a butterfly as an extension to the flowers on my digital panel.

You should still have
a small piece of patterned paper/cardstock left which you need to stick on the
inside, bottom-centre of your card. I used foam dots to stick this on – this
raises it so it acts like a platform for the card to stand up properly.

I only added a couple
of embellishments to the front patterned platform. You can embellish the whole
panel to make your card more ornate if you like. However, I’ve left mine fairly
plain so that the sentiment can be written on the panel and easily visible for
people to read.

Thank you so much for
dropping by and I hope you learned something that you can use for inspiration
next time you want to make a card.

Don't forget to enter this month's ARTastic challenge. All the details are in the left sidebar. Remember you have until the end of the month to submit your entry.

Richard Godfrey Rivers was an English artist, active in Australia and president of the Queensland Art Society from 1892–1901 and 1904-08. Richard Godfrey Rivers was born in 1858 in Plymouth, England, the son of Richard Rivers and Bertha nee Harris.

Under the jacaranda 1903 has been one of the best loved works in the Queensland Art Gallery since it entered the Collection in 1903. Godfrey Rivers completed the painting 13 years after he arrived in Australia from the United Kingdom.

The work depicts Rivers and his wife, Selina, taking tea under the shade of a jacaranda tree in full bloom. The tree was a landmark in Brisbane's Botanic Gardens, which adjoined the grounds of the Brisbane Technical College where Rivers taught from 1891 to 1915.

It was almost certainly the first jacaranda to be grown in Australia. Walter Hill, the Gardens' Superintendent, planted it in 1864. It remained in the Gardens until 1979, when it was blown over during a cyclone ― part of the trunk is now located at the offices of the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens.

With jacarandas now growing in most Brisbane suburbs, many the progeny of this first tree, Under the jacarandamay be considered a quintessential image of this city.

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It doesn't matter how old photos are the memories of family life particularly when they have been talked about like the photo in this layout come flooding back. So little was known about this extraordinary fish....Unlike today when you Google and get 100's of responses.

I was inspired by the sooo Australian Jacaranda tree – using
a hint of the purple on my page, as well as some green. Mostly, to suit the
vintage mood, I kept with a brown background. I picked out the parasol, &
added one of those…serendipity would have it that I had a hand crafted
accordion bloom from Tone-Lil….& since she’s on the ARTastic team, it seemed
a fun thing to incorporate that as well! I tried to follow the ‘outdoorsy’ feel
from the picture, using butterflies & feathers.

The lady standing at the table and the pop of red in the umbrella reminded
me of this photo of me (yes , sadly it is now a vintage photo) cutting my 21st
birthday cake with that red pot in the macrame holder behind me. I’ve scrapped
both the original photo which has “oranged” a bit with time and also a black and
white copy of it. To create my page, I was also inspired by the browns, creams,
greens, jacaranda and the pop of red in the artwork.

I used a photo of me, my older sister and our father taken when I was 1 1/2
years old. It was so fun to look in all the old photo albums. My mother took a
lot of photos so our childhood is well documented.

Please upload the DIRECT link to your actual entry with the link tool on the LEFT by 11.55pm on October 31st, 2014. We'd love to see your new paper, digital, or off the page entries. Please no back-dated submissions. I am happy for you to combine with other challenges (maximum of 3) but the essence of the ARTastic inspirational artwork must be clear in your work. Combining with a sketch or colour challenge would be preferred. International submissions are welcome.

Please pop back on the 8th for The ARTastic 3T's - Tips, Tricks and Techniques brought to you this month by our wonderful team member, Wendy O'Keeffe. I am sure you will love what she has to show you.

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